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25 February 2010
What the world needs now: The TEDActive music video
When the John Lennon bus drove up to TEDActive, attendees got the chance to collaborate on a music video to share their ideas for what the world needs now.
Jill Sobule, John Doe, Sara Watkins, Stuart Johnson, Don Was, Dave Way, Krish Sharma and the amazing team on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus came together to write, perform and produce an original song, on-site during the conference. Aaron Koblin directed the video, and the TEDActive community turned their ideas into illustrations, with a little help from artist Jansen Yee.
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Scott Watson
Feb 25 2010And here’s the song performed live at the TEDActive party at Desert Adventures Ranch!
(recorded on a Nexus One for good or ill!)
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WOONGSHIK CHOI
Feb 25 2010Love it. It reminds me TEDActive2010 again!
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Linda Ashworth
Feb 25 2010Great job everybody! Who know we could really draw!
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Tami Wells
Feb 25 2010This video is brilliant! Now, the trick is to get more people to live it! Good job “Tedsters”!
How about one for Ocean Education…see Craig Strang at U.C. Berkeley…Ocean Literacy pioneer or Dee at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
And one for urban and sustainable gardens…Ted Caplow…SunWorks of New York.
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Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán
Feb 25 2010Congratulations, you Active TEDsters. The video is amazing. We need to spread those ideas!
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John Griffin
Feb 26 2010Awesome video! The link to the higher res download is broken though…
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hemalatha kannan
Feb 26 2010The song is mind blowing and we should know about the things we missed
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Stephanie Tobor
Feb 26 2010thank you so much for sharing, tedactive! i’m only sorry we didn’t get to appreciate you while at ted long beach. here’s my standing o!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO -
Andrea Kates
Feb 26 2010An upbeat, mini vacation. Should be required watching for any moment when you need to reboot. Great change of pace “insert-able” for staff meetings. Kudos to everyone who contributed.
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Colleen Steen
Feb 26 2010YES! DELIGHTFUL! BE HERE NOW!!!
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Hilary Goldsmith
Feb 26 2010Took me straight back to Palm Springs in just 4 minutes. I love you for including my drawing, and redrawing it so it looks great, and not embarrassingly rubbish.
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Andrea Barthello
Feb 26 2010I love this so much – am going to listen/watch every week – thank you!!!
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Dorothy Lawson
Feb 27 2010This is SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!! ETHEL loves these musicians – especially the lovely Jill Sobule, who we met in Monterey in 2006 – and the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus!! We missed working with them at this conference, but what this team came up with is BRILLIANT. Congratulations, and once again, YAY, TED!!!
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Anwer Ali
Feb 27 2010Nicely done So Simple So Effective!
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Greg Allen Morgoglione
Feb 28 2010I’m pretty certain I am an alien.
Am I the only one who wonders why these people are riding around on a bus making videos about What the World Needs Now, yet the idea that the world needs more people riding around on buses making videos about what Others should be/do is not mentioned? Its like Utopia singing folk mu…sicians singing about what Others should be/do while they are busy not being/doing it.
Im just askin
Greg
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Greg Allen Morgoglione
Feb 28 2010I’m pretty certain I am an alien.
Am I the only one who wonders why these people are riding around on a bus making videos about What the World Needs Now, yet the idea that the world needs more people riding around on buses making videos about what Others should be/do is not mentioned? Its like Utopia singing folk mu…sicians singing about what Others should be/do while they are busy not being/doing it.
Im just askin
Greg
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Fazl? Fatih Melemez
Feb 28 2010Congradulations! That’s pretty nice work, hope it continues in anyway
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sam milner
Mar 9 2010I hope that everything is that simple. Sad to say we are living in a very dangerous place. Is ther still hope yet? I hope. What does the world need now…really?
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sam milner
Mar 9 2010I hope that everything is that simple. Sad to say we are living in a very dangerous place. Is ther still hope yet? I hope. What does the world need now…really?
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sam milner
Mar 9 2010I hope that everything is that simple. Sad to say we are living in a very dangerous place. Is ther still hope yet? I hope. What does the world need now…really?
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sam milner
Mar 9 2010I hope that everything is that simple. Sad to say we are living in a very dangerous place. Is ther still hope yet? I hope. What does the world need now…really?
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sam milner
Mar 9 2010I hope that everything is that simple. Sad to say we are living in a very dangerous place. Is ther still hope yet? I hope. What does the world need now…really?
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sam milner
Mar 9 2010I hope that everything is that simple. Sad to say we are living in a very dangerous place. Is ther still hope yet? I hope. What does the world need now…really?
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sam milner
Mar 9 2010I hope that everything is that simple. Sad to say we are living in a very dangerous place. Is ther still hope yet? I hope. What does the world need now…really?
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sam milner
Mar 9 2010I hope that everything is that simple. Sad to say we are living in a very dangerous place. Is ther still hope yet? I hope. What does the world need now…really?
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Mihail Stoychev
I am so happy I took part in this. it such a pity, however, that it wasn’t fitted on the schedule. However, it is nice that it’s made available, so that you guys know what you’ve missed :)